On yesterday's episode of The View (above), while discussing the issue of HIV and AIDS in the African American community, Sherri Shepherd and guest host D.L. Hughley caused quite a bit of controversy by making some misinformed comments regarding heterosexual women contracting the disease from closeted gay men through intercourse.

Unfortunately, that information is incorrect, and GLAAD has asked the talk show to retract the damaging comments.

GLAAD's Senior Director of Programs', Rashad Robinson, says:

"Sherri Shepherd and D.L. Hughley's claim that African American gay and bisexual men are ‘primarily' responsible for increased HIV rates among African American women is inaccurate and dangerous. Medical experts, including the Centers for Disease Control have dispelled that myth and ABC has a responsibility to its viewers to correct the information. Shepherd and Hughley's comments fuel a climate of homophobia and racism."

With all the misinformation and falsities still out there regarding such a widespread disease, we're disappointed that ABC would have no problem letting clearly wrong facts knowingly be given blindly to their viewers.

131 comments to “Sad. The View Perpetuates False Information About The Spread Of HIV/AIDS, Refuses To Retract”

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Wow, I think it's very sad and scary that this is still an issue. I hope there can be some change in the world soon. I have a family member that died as an AIDS victim, and it's wrong that there are presumptions about how people like him contract the disease, and WHY they contracted it.

Perez I love you Hun but sometimes you say stupid crap. Like black people being racist to gays hahahahahaha fuck that they're not a race and they are African American how can that be I'm black and don't give a two shits.

Sherri Shepherd and D.L. Hughley should right THEIR WRONG!
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THEY BETTER NOT WIN A DAY TIME EMMY AFTER THIS SHIT!
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JOY SHOULD RELEASE A STATEMENT AND DISTANCE HERSELF FROM THE STUPIDITY! OR FUCK HER TOO!
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FUCK THE VIEW AND ABC!
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SHERRI'S KID WILL BE GAY!

How are these people still ignorant about this disease. The View is absolutely despicable. False information and homophobes are the reason we can't get past all this stupidity. I am a straight woman who studies evolutionary biology in college and I can tell you for a fact that AIDS has nothing to do with sexual orientation. It is a virus that we as a community can only begin to combat by making the facts known. By encouraging our children to use condoms. I don't care who they're nailing as long as they wrap it up!! That's how we fight Aids.

I think you need to read more, Perez. D.L. is correct, political correctness should never find its way into medical issues.

Read about the contraction rates from woman to man … it's less than 5 percent. The fact of the matter is that the bulk of contractions are from men to women, or from men to men (in the sexual context). This means that if a black woman contracts HIV from a man who is did not get it from drug use, a blood transfusion, or birth, then he likely contracted it from a man. The chance that he contracted it from a woman are minuscule.

Ask ANY medical professional and they'll tell you this is true. When being defensive means spreading misinformation, or masking information that may fuel bigots or the ignorant, then it's dangerous. Let's not be so politically correct that we're just dead wrong!

Actually, it's partially true. I think Perez as a gay doesn't want to admit this. This is what happens in Africa. This is why their AIDS/HIV rate is so sky high. It translates over to here in the US and other countries as well.

Perez missed the point…AGAIN. What you SHOULD be concentrating on is what was said in the last 15 seconds of the clip. The tests aren't 100% accurate. THAT IS MORE CONTROVERSIAL THAN ANYTHING RELATED TO BEING GAY.

Unless you are part of the black community you really wouldn't have any idea of how damaging the whole down low epidemic is to the community…..it's similar to latin communities' own problem with men/women who live a lie because of social stigmas in those communities. I don't think they are very far off in their conclusions/statements. Over the past few years their has been an obvious push in the media to make homosexuality a more acceptable lifestyle than in previous generations…… maybe eventually these men and woman won't feel the need to live lies and risk the lives of people they claim to "love" or use for social acceptance IMO

Re: buck –
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THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST STUPID THINGS YOU HAVE WROTE!
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AIDS DOESN'T CARE GAY OR STRAIGHT!
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IT DOESN'T CARE IF ITS A COCK IN A GUYS ASS OR A GIRLS KUNT OR ASS!
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WEAR A RUBBER UNLESS YOU TRULY TRUST THE PERSON WITH YOUR LIFE!
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I used to volunteer for an AIDS hot line and many men called and said they were closeted gays, positive for HIV and wanted to know IF they should tell their wife! I just can't have respect or sympathy for people like that. I stopped volunteering so I wouldn't have to listen to shit like that.

If they are "closest" gay/bi men, then they are not admitting they are having sex with men in the first place, they are HIDING it because they want NO ONE to know. So how could GLAAD prove that this is just a MYTH? I highly doubt a closet gay/bi man sleeping with a woman is contributing in studies with the medical community, including the center of disease control.

i do not think they should retract their comments bc the view is all about peoples opinions and perspectives- and although science may have new and different facts about hiv -the dl is a serious issue that the black community faces and the people that spoke about it have a perspective that is what they expressed and that is true to their lives and experiences.

I wonder how many of those AID/HIV test fail, when giving blood. I sort of see the FDA's point of view. Although it is discriminatory in nature I think that the General Welfare of all people (gay, black, white…) should exceed discrimination. Therefore, perhaps this is not such a bad policy to have?

ABC must have hundreds of attorneys working for them. They are not going to do anything to risk a lawsuit. If they are not retracting the statement it is because there must be a large, credible section of the medical community that agrees with the statement made. The CDC isn't the end all of medical opinion.

Also, I find it amusing you would post GLAAD statements since you pretty much trashed them after your beat down. They also trashed you– a former employee. Hahahaha!!!

Why is Sherri on TV?!? She thinks the world is FLAT!!! Doesn't she realize that a lot of people are getting HIV/AIDS from jail and prison? Men get raped and others are more willing. Then those men come home and have intercourse with their women…that's how it is getting spread…not because African American men are afraid of coming out! She needs to be off of TV!

Maybe its not as prevelant in other communities but in the African American community more and more women are cotracting HIV/AIDS through sex with their partner who happens to also be sleeping with men. Some men would rather keep their sexuality a secret and continue to put their S/O in harms way, scared of what people will think of him. Its not right and its dangerous and deadly.

It was said by a black reverend on Oprah too when she did a whole group of programs about the rise of aids in heterosexual groups about 4 years ago - 'a plague' in the black female population is caused by booty loving gay black men aftraid to come out of the closet because it is so frowned upon in the community - nobody called Oprah out on it!!

I would like to see the statistics stating this is wrong. What we know as HIV changed to that name in the 1980s. The HIV virus was originally called GRID, or Gay Related Immune Deficiency. This was due to the rampant spreading of it in the gay male community. Cities in the US with high AIDs/HIV rates are also cities with high gay populations.

It is also more common in cities with large African American populations such as Washington DC. The last time I read, DC had a 5% HIV positive rate (out of 100% of residents).

obviously, one needs to look at any statistical studies, or the basis of that "finding", but I'll tell you something, this truth, that IS out there for many women and their extended families, DOES need to be STUDIED , PUBLISHED and most importantly: DISCUSSED.

My beloved older sister moved over 1K miles from the family home to marry a closeted bisexual. No one in her family OR the Episcopal church knew, except his priest, his family and friends. The first thing out of his mouth was that he "wanted children", she gave him two and after 10 years left him because of marital difficulties..THEN she found out he was gay!! He used her as his confidante!! telling her all the difficulties of his "New" romances, then shortly thereafter, she died from a sexually transmitted disease, possibly from a transmission from him–who will ever know? She had a complete nervous breakdown before she died re: all this and the effect for her kids–he TOOK her power away to make an INFORMED decision by HIDING his sexual history before they married…and that particular ACT has NOTHING to do with being GAY or Straight–HONESTY–from everyone re: their sexual past NOW

This can most certainly be true 'tards! If any race of man doesn't use protection when he sleeps with a woman and he's double dipping in someone else's ***, he can in fact spread AIDS. Get your head out of your butt and think Perez!

Re: jaksonx – You're a disgusting human being! What a double standard, saying it's worse for men than women. Is it because you get a huge boner when you see 2 chicks getting it on?? Typical hetero man attitude. If you don't like gays, get the f*ck out of civilized society because they're EVERYWHERE now!! I hope you have a gay son someday.

Why, why would ABC allow D.L hughley and stupid sherri make comments like this and not apologize for it. AIDS is everywhere its not linked to one specific race at all. A majority of the time people with aids are unrecognizable. People just need to stop generalizing aids with certain racial backgrounds because it's not true.

Re: kimbo1718 – I agree African american men are a fraction of the problem when it comes to contracting aids. People are so quick to assume that its only black men spreading the disease increasing the rate of aids but its not true the last time i looked around white men are DL as well even the married white men. Ignorant people will always blame black people for Aids in america or africans for the aids epidemic.

This is all bullshit! All i can say to the Gay Community is PLEASE KEEP FIGHTING. I can't believe we still live in a world where such blatant and obvious discrimination is allowed to exist! I can't believe that we live in a world where people can spew lies and prejudice into the airwaves and get away with it!! I am not gay but I believe that all people deserve to be treated equally and those of you who disagree can go back to the fucking Dark Ages! HIV/AIDS is spread by fucking dumb asses who have multiple sex partners and don't use protection. It is spread because people do not get tested. It is spread by IGNORANCE in the Black Community NOT GAY people! I am black and the fact is many people in the black community do not have the access to information about HIV!! It has NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING to do with Gay people!!! This is the type of fear mongering that keeps our society from moving forward!! This is bull shit, fuck u ABC. Fuck The View. Fuck you D.L Hugley, you are all horrible, ignorant, prejudice, hateful people!…I am for truth and equality I REFUSE TO LISTEN TO YOUR HATE SPEECH!!!! Gay Pride!

I'm not an epidemiologist, so I'm not sure if DL sex is the *primary* method of transmission, but I do know that dDown-low sex is absolutely a reality and a CRITICAL epidemic in the black community! It *needs* to be discussed on national TV. If anything is homophobic, it's not the comments made by the view, but rather the US culture that so strongly denies the option of being gay to black men, so that they feel they must lead a double life and have anonymous sex with strangers in private.

Isn't that fat black gorilla the same person that said the earth was flat and nothing predated Christ. She also had like ten abortions. Its been shown the reason blacks are against homosexuality is because of there own treatment by whites, they are basically insecure with themselves.

My white friend keeps the ashes of both her Mother and Father on a bookcase in the living room. Her Dad and Mom both died of AIDS when Dad contracted it by having extramarital affairs with Men. It's not just a black thing, I bet there are just higher statistics with African Americans. I say do not retract the statement, but add to it, point out how infidelity and promiscuity in general is not just immoral and selfish, but it can kill you! Stop being a big slut and live an honest life without lying, cheating, and using others, and we won't have these issues!

Yup, business as usual because 2 black people made the statement. If Elizabeth H had made the statement, there'd be riots at the station and everyone would be calling for her head, not just a retraction.

The "introduction" of HIV into the homosexual community in America occurred the same year the hepatitis B vaccine experiment began in 1978 in New York City. In the experiment over a thousand young, promiscuous, homosexual and bisexual men were used as guinea pigs and injected with the vaccine. In 1979, a few months after the homosexual experiment began in Manhattan, the first case of AIDS appeared in a young gay Manhattan male. In 1980, thousands of additional gays were injected in subsequent hepatitis B vaccine experiments in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities.

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PEREZ YOU ARE WRONG! How can you say that it is safe for a man to have unprotected sex with another man then have unprotected sex with his wife? If a man has sex with a man who has aids then has sex with his wife SHE WILL GET IT TO! Stop being so sensitive. You are a gay man STOP LYING ABOUT THE FACTS. Many gay in in the African American community must hid the fact that they are gay. Many times the hide behind relationships with females. Black people do not accept homosexuality as easily as whites. THIS IS A FACT. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH RACISM OR HOMOPHOBIA! Have sex with an aids infested person PEREZ then tell us you still feel safe!

Aids was made in the USA
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In 1962, under the cover of cancer research, the United States charts a path to commit premeditated murder, the “Special Virus” program begins on February 12th. Dr. Len Hayflick sets up a U.S. mycoplasma laboratory at Stanford University. Many believe the “Special Virus” program began in November 1961 with a Phizer contract.
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In 1964, the United States Congress gave full support for the leukemia/lymphoma (AIDS) virus research.
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In 1967, the National Academy of Sciences launched a full scale assault on Africa. The CIA (Technical Services Division) acknowledged its secret inoculator program.

In 1969, Fort Detrick told world scientists and the Pentagon asked for more money, they knew they could make AIDS. Nixon’s July 18 secret memo to Congress on “Overpopulation” serves as the start of the paper trail of the AIDS Holocaust.
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In 1970, President Nixon signed PL91-213
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Project MKNAOMI
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1970 H.B. 15090
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MK-NAOMI is the code for the development of AIDS. The “MK” portion stands for the two co-authors of the AIDS virus, Robert Manaker and Paul Kotin. The “NAOMI” portion stands for “Negr**s are Only Momentary Individuals.”
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the dispelling of these "myths" due to "research" most likely conducted by biased individuals, who failed to account for the CLOSETED gay population. If African American men are having unprotected sex with one another in SECRET, then how on earth can GLAAD say the statements were definitely false and incorrect? And since they are members of the African American community, I should think they would have a better feel of the pulse of said community and what is going on within it!

This is not false or misleading in any way. AIDS is the number one killer of black women in America. A large number of black men come out of prison, where they have had homosexual experiences, and spread this disease to their women. It is a huge problem, made worse because condoms are not provided in prison. If gay people are not so afraid of being blamed for AIDS then we would be able to have an honest conversation about this issue, and find a solution.

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In 1976, the United States issues Progress Report #13 of the Special Virus program. The report proves the United States had various international agreements with the Russians, Germans, British, French, Canadians and Japanese. The plot to kill Black people has wide international support. In March, the Special Virus began production of the AIDS virus, by June 1977, the program will have produced 15,000 gallons of AIDS.
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In 1977, Dr. Robert Gallo and the top Soviet Scientists meet to discuss the proliferation of the 15,000 gallons of AIDS. They attach AIDS as complement to the Small pox vaccine for Africa, and the “experimental” hepatitis B vaccine for Manhattan.
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Batch #751 that was administered in New York to thousands of innocent people.
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In 1980, thousands of additional gays were injected in subsequent hepatitis B vaccine experiments in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other U.S. cities.

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